Development of a Convolutional Neural Network for Detection of Ovarian Cancer Based on Computed Tomography Images
Journal
Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems
Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer Science, Electronics and Industrial Engineering (CSEI 2023)
ISSN
2367-3370
2367-3389
Date Issued
2024
Author(s)
Gabriela Narvaez-Chunillo
Ronny Ordoñez-Sanchez
Lizbeth Ortiz-Vinueza
Diego Almeida-Galárraga
Fernando Villalba-Meneses
Roberto Bravo-Freire
Andrés Tirado-Espín
Carolina Cadena-Morejón
Paulina Vizcaíno-Imacaña
Type
book-chapter
Abstract
Ovarian cancer is one of the most frequent gynecologic malignancies in women, but it is often detected in late stage, leaving patients with little time to follow a successful therapy. Specialists have opted to use computer-aided diagnosis (CAD) for the detection of ovarian cancer through the analysis of computed tomography (CT) images, in which the professional examines the size, shape and different characteristics that enable a precise diagnosis in the ovary. This present project purposes a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) which consist on four convolutional layers; including two pooling layer and two fully-connected layer. The cancerous ovaries images is selected from the Cancer Imaging Achive dataset for training and validation of the model. Moreover, the training of the CNN contain filters to ensure that all of the images are the same dimensions and pixel size. The testing results from the training of the images showed that the proposed model obtained a range of accuracy that goes from 90.0% to the best of the cases 98.85%. The variables obtained like the data of the pressure and loss of the training were compared with those of the validation, allowing for the determination of a successful CNN training.